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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Mason v. City of Huntsville

5:10-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2010

Closed Date: March 13, 2014

On October 15, 2010, two private plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs asserted claims against the City of Huntsville, Alabama (the City) for injunctive relief, attorney’s fees, and costs pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act). They also sought an order requiring the City to undertake a self-evaluation of its program…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department (“Phoenix”). According to the announcement, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, intended to examine whether the City and the Department had a pattern or practice of violating the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of its citizens, the 1964 Civil Rights Act,…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lindsay v. Torn and Glasser, Inc

2:17-cv-02179 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 7, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2017

On March 21, 2017, this suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiff, a California resident who suffered from arthritis, alleged that the defendants, a store in Los Angeles and unnamed John Doe defendants for other stores, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California state law. Specifically, she claimed that the defendants' parking lot and transaction counter were not accessible for individuals with physical disabilities. T…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Anchorage School District v. M.G

3:17-cv-00157 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

Closed Date: March 27, 2019

This case is about whether an Alaska school district was required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to provide a student with blindness and other disabilities with an education a specialized school in Massachusetts. The student was a young man with multiple disabilities, including autism, gastrointestinal disorders, cognitive impairments, and impending blindness. His Individualized Education Plan (IEP) established he needed to attend a school for the blind in order to ad…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Hindel v. Husted

2:15-cv-03061 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2015

Closed Date: June 11, 2018

On December 12, 2015 Disability Rights Ohio and the law firm of Brown, Goldstein, & Levy, LLP, brought this case against the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted on behalf of three blind Ohio voters and the National Federation of the Blind. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, where it was assigned to District Judge George C. Smith. The case raised claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs faced discrimin…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Merz v. Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, et al.

1:14-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2014

Closed Date: May 22, 2015

This is a vocational rehabilitation services recipient’s appeal of an adverse Rehabilitation Act fair hearing decision. The plaintiff, a high school student with an intellectual disability, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on February 3, 2014, against Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities and several of its officers. Represented by counsel from Disability Rights Ohio, the plaintiff sought a reversal of the fair hearing decision that denied him partic…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ray v. Madison Co., et al

1:20-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: June 23, 2021

On November 21, 2018, the plaintiff, a deaf woman, was arrested by the Anderson Police Department and transported to the Madison County Jail. The plaintiff was handcuffed behind her back while she was detained, preventing her from communicating using American Sign Language (ASL). Her requests for an interpreter were ignored and she was not provided with access to a qualified interpreter or other functional auxiliary aids (at one point, she was given a teletypewriter (TTY) but the facility lacke…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sostre v. McGinnis

62-cv-28785 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 1964

This is a historic case about religious liberty in New York prisons. It's part of the Clearinghouse's collection of several cases brought by prisoners rights activist (and prisoner) Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  In 1964, Sostre and other individuals incarcerated at Attica sued the New York Commissioner of Correction and the warden of Attica under §1983. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant violated their rights with respect to their religious practice, in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Vayeghan v. Kelly

2:17-cv-00702 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 27, 2017

This action, filed on January 28, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (in Los Angeles), challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) banning non-U.S. citizen nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States. The plaintiff, an Iranian citizen with a U.S. immigrant visa and a U.S. citizen son, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking immediate release from detention and a civil…